Are You up for the Challenge? Watch the 180 Movie.

Ray Comfort positions abortion in a way that enables people to think critically about the issue, and many even change their minds on abortion within seconds.  Are you up for the challenge?

Pro-Choice to Pro-Life . . . in Seconds! New Documentary Premires Tomorrow

The 180 documentary premieres tomorrow.  Watch it at http://www.180movie.com/.

A Year with Miss Scruffy

Miss Scruffy has been in our lives for a year.  She has now been a part of our family more than with any other family.  Her first owner passed away, so she was brought to a shelter.  Her second owner broke her back right after she took Scruffy in and had to have a friend bring her right back to the shelter.  When we adopted her, we hoped we weren't next in line for a disaster.  Turns out the dog isn't cursed; she has only brought us happiness. 

Well, that's true for me.  Michael says she's not a real dog--she's small, doesn't devour her food immediately, doesn't understand toys, and she's shy around men.  She wouldn't go near him her first few months in our home. But I can tell he's got a soft spot for her in his heart.  His eyes sparkle everytime she jumps in his lap.

Here is our first year with Miss Scruffy:

Our first family photo.  This is us at the shelter.

Miss Scruffy's first morning with us.

She loves car rides.

And has her own seat belt.

I used to lovingly refer to her as our third couch cushion
until we stopped allowing her on the couch.

She checks my messages.

Modeling for me.

Our first family Christmas photo.

She decided she liked her cousin's big bed better than her own.

Driving my mom's van.

Chilaxin'

She likes to people watch from the balcony.

What a fun year!

Do Christians Ignore Science?

The heavens proclaim the glory of God.  The skys proclaim his craftmanship.

Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known.

Psalm 19:1-2

Are Christians Irrational?

See for yourself:

Trying to Learn Some Apologetics

I just finished listening to my pastor's study on Christian apologetics. I love that my God is not only my Savior from sin and hell, but He is logical.  Our faith is logical.  Contrary to popular belief, Christians do not have to leave their brain at home when they go to church.  Well, I'm sure some do, but we don't need to!

I want to eventually have some of this apologetics stuff ingrained in my brain, so that I can share it with my sceptic friends when I share Jesus or with my Christian friends when they have legitimate questions about how we can believe what we believe. My poor little brain is having a hard time processing all this great information. I believe repetition and teaching is the key to knowing and understanding new material, so I am going to keep listening to lessons like my pastor put out and reading books on the topic.  It's time to go listen to Pastor Lance's study again.

Here is a link to all of his lessons on Sermon Audio.

He used I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler and  Frank Turek as part of his study.

 

Here are some other great books and websites on Christian apologetics that I love:

 

Answers in Genesis: http://www.answersingenesis.org/
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries: http://www.rzim.org/
Summit Ministries: http://www.summit.org/resources/research/category/apologetics/

Quilt Fort

Michael and I did not drive far to get to our Labor Day vacation destination. We stayed in a fort built in our living room.

Michael said he never built a fort out of quilts as a child, and he still hasn't built one.  I did most of the work.  He did hand me some clothes pins and was a good sport once it was up.

We had a mild disaster while I was assembling the east corner. The structure collapsed, and the books and tile coasters I used as weights nearly fell on his face! He survived, but this incident may not have happened if he he had been doing more draping of quilts over chairs and less reading of Star Wars.  Just goes to show ya--sometimes manual labor can be more beneficial to society than having one's nose in a book.

Scruffy enjoyed the fort before we did.  She took a nap while we took a lunch break.

We had to push her to the back of the fort so we could get in.  She promptly fell back to sleep.

Then we laid down on our pillows and turned on Gremlins. I thought it seemed appropriate to watch a campy kid movie. 

This was my first time to watch the flick.  I would no longer categorize it as a kid's movie.  As a child, I would have freaked if I saw little monsters blendered and nuked to death, and worse, I would have become mortified of Christmas trees, one of my favorite Christmas traditions.

However, the movie was campy and so was our living room.

I got this idea from my friend Laura at Minty Fresch.  It proved to be a fun indoor date.

What creative dates have you had indoors?